Local Police
Roughly 50 cars have been marked with what seems to be blood from a person in the Germany's town of Hanau close to Frankfurt, police confirm authorities.
Cars, walls and postboxes were vandalized, sometimes with Nazi symbols, they reported in a statement.
Officers report they were contacted late on Wednesday evening, when a resident discovered that a car in the Lamboy area of Hanau had been covered with a red-colored liquid.
The substance had been drawn in the form of a banned symbol, they reported.
Police then located many other marked vehicles and house walls in the nearby vicinity.
Nazi symbols are illegal in Germany under regulations banning the visible presentation of Nazi symbols.
Officials state preliminary tests suggest the substance was probably blood from a person.
"Currently there is no clue as to its origin; officials are not yet informed of any physical harm in connection with the occurrence," they stated.
Local authorities announced they were working "to unravel the incident" and have appealed to the public for details.
A senior political figure said the attack left him stunned and had to be solved promptly.
"This event hits the core of Hanau and reopens the trauma of the extremist attack five years ago," he posted on online, recalling the death of nine individuals by a shooter aiming at individuals of foreign heritage in February 2020.
